Seba.Health
The Odyssey 11.473–476
How didst thou dare to come down to Hades, where dwell the unheeding dead, the phantoms of men outworn.’1
“‘So he spoke, and I made answer and said:‘Achilles, son of Peleus, far the mightiest of the Achaeans, I came through need of Teiresias,1 if haply
διογενὲς Λαερτιάδη, πολυμήχανʼ Ὀδυσσεῦ,
σχέτλιε, τίπτʼ ἔτι μεῖζον ἐνὶ φρεσὶ μήσεαι ἔργον;
πῶς ἔτλης Ἄϊδόσδε κατελθέμεν, ἔνθα τε νεκροὶ
ἀφραδέες ναίουσι, βροτῶν εἴδωλα καμόντων;